Greg, yes you're probably right.
Regards
Denise
On 9/2/14 9:18 AM, "Greg and Val Clancy" <> wrote:
> Hi Denise,
>
> I think that you could add the Black-necked (Satin) Stork (Djagana) to that
> list, although they don't nest communally.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Greg
> Dr Greg. P. Clancy
> Ecologist and Birding-wildlife Guide
> | PO Box 63 Coutts Crossing NSW 2460
> | 02 6649 3153 | 0429 601 960
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>
> http://gregswildliferamblings.blogspot.com.au/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 3:25 AM
> To: Birding Aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Threats to Top End birds
>
>
> Top End floodplains are the most important Australian breeding areas for
> several water birds eg.
>
> Great Egrets - 30 000
> Intermediate Egret - 90 000
> Little Egret - 18 000
> Cattle Egret - 30 000
> Little Pied Cormorant - 18 500
> Pied Heron - 22 600
> Nankeen Night Heron - 19 000
> Royal Spoonbill - 5 500
>
> These figures come courtesy of Ray Chatto ( Waterbird Breeding Colonies
> Of the Northern Territory, Technical Report 69:2000).
>
> These floodplains are under threat from rising sea level - 14 cms in 20
> years if I remember correctly. The Amateur Fishermen's Association NT
> website has several photos demonstrating the damage done to the Mary River
> system - freshwater paperbark swamps are now hypersaline mudflats
> <https://www.facebook.com/AmatuerFishermenNT/photos_albums> (sic).
>
> The change to anyone familiar with the area is simply astounding. Where
> only a few years ago there were paperbarks, waterlilies and sacred lotus,
> and typha and spikerush, there is only bare mud, for as far as one can see.
>
> While the Mary River is apparently the most affected
> <http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2012/Pages/SealevelriseimpactingNT¹sunique
> riversystems.aspx>, Kakadu and the Finniss and other river systems are also
> under threat as are areas further afield including islands and the Great
> Barrier Reef.
>
> Another threat, and I mentioned this and the above in my presentations
> throughout the US in 2009 and at the Colombia Bird Festival, are destructive
> and more frequent fires. Destructive fires are due to the spread of
> transformer weeds such as Gamba and Mission Grass, and also less burning off
> as Aboriginal burning practices and knowledge are lost and such people move
> away from their country.
>
> According to one paper 396 bird taxa "are very highly exposed" (Garnett, ST,
> Franklin, DC, Ehmke, G, Van Der Wal, JJ, Hodgson, L, Pavey, C, Reside, AE,
> Welbergen, JA, Butchart, SHM, Perkins, GC, Williams, SE, 2013).
>
> That's more than half of Australia's resident bird species.
>
>
> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> PO Box 71, Darwin River,
> NT 0841
> 043 8650 835
>
> PhD candidate, SCU
> Vice-chair, Wildlife Tourism Australia
>
>
>
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